Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-06-09

recently appointed to investigate the ex-
tent of pleuro- pneumonia in Cook County,
ILL.,, has been published. SThe conimittee
reports that the disease exists IN limited
district in Chicago only.
THE SOUTH.
CHARLES BUCKLEY, another suspected
member ofsthe gang that robbed the Mis-
souri, Pacific train near McNeill, Tex, has
been brought in. He was arrested near
Luling This makes eight suspects jailed
MARYLAND peach growers are excited
over the ravages of rose bugs among the
young peaches.
RICH finds of placer gold assaying from
$50 to $50 per ton are reported from Golden
City. Ark.
A BOILER in an elevator at Huntington,
W. Va, exploded recently killing 1. H.
Reece, John Kelly and W. K. Albertson
and badly injuring John Cox engineer,
George Newman and Chapncey Rossinger,
besides dozen others, whose woundswere
not considered dangerous.
ARTHUR Z. SToNER fell from the third
story of a hotel in Palestine, Tex, the other
night and was killed. 1
WHILE towing a raft down the Little
Kanawha the other day, near Parkersburg,
w. Va, the boiler of the tug boat Whaler
exploded, killing the engineer, Peter Wal
tiers, and fatally injuring J ackson Smith,
fireman, anu Inc U6Ll-JSdr-Dlo SOU VI Uuo Gil
gineer, whose right arm was blown off at
the shoulder. FL - RM
DAVID WEEBIN retail dry goods dealer,
and E. LEVEL q Sons, wholesale hardware,
of Savannah, Ga, lost their establishments
by fire recently. Loss, <l25, GOO ! in snrance,
S75, 900. go - 49,
WHILE Samuel G. Reed, deserter from
the army, was being led from the guard
house at San gAntonio,g Tex, srecently to
undergo trialaby court martial, he broke
away from the guards and fed. The
guards sent a volley after him and he fell
mortally wounded. He is believed to have
committed half a dozen mprders- A few
years ago he and another deserter Killed a
rich Jew named Block at Matamoras and
secured $4,000. He comes Of q good family
in Montgomery, Ala Es r...-e
JOSEPH BARBER, one of the alleged Texas
train robbers, has proved a clear alibi. He
CLAIMS that he was offered 81, 900 to confess
that he was one of the band. - .-ft.+ F
AT the convention of the Episcopal do
cese of Easton, held at ChestertoWn, Md,
on the 1st Rev. II. s. Lindsay, of St.
Johns Church, Georgetown, D. c., was
elected Bishop to succeed the late Bishop
Lay. EN' ~"
A RAIN and wind storm passed over
Wheeling, w. Va. on the 1st, doing much
damage to property. During the storm a
boat containing three passengers capsized
near the middle of the river, the occupants
being swept out of sight almost immed-
ately.
A SPECIAL from Coffeeville, Miss, of the
1st says: ''Air Mount, town nine miles
east of this place, was visited yesterday by
terrible hail storm. The crops We're
completely destroyed. Many farmers are
ruined"
Two freight trains collided the other
morning forty miles south of Calera, Ala,
on the Louisville & Nashville railway. En-
gineer Howard Rowe and Fireman Burton
(colored) were killed outright, as was also
negro tramp, while another tramp was
fatally injured. Both trains were badly
Wrecked a. ~ a,s b 80 % ~ -
RAILWAY men who have made the entire
trip report that twenty-seven large iron and
wooden bridges have been washed away
IN the floods of the past week between San
Antonio, Tex, and San Francisco ? *
GENERAL.
TWELVE hundred coal miners at Bachmut,
Russia, who were out on strike recently
attempted to rob the brewery owned by a
firm of Englishmen. Fifty English work
men attached to the brewery mounted
horses and resisted the attack of the strik-
ers. During the fight which occurred three
| of the workmen were killed. Many of the
! strikers, who are all Russians, were ar
| rested. The conflict was ended before mill
| tary aid arrived.
| THE Minister of Colonies has announced
| in the Spanish Cortes that the Government
had decided to largely increase the import
! duty on goods imported from nations which.
| like the United States, had no commercial
| treaty with Spain. 1t was thought that
this policy would lead to agitation in Cuba
Two men died in Montreal the other day
from poison placed in their lunch askets
! by unknown persons.
Two officials in the presidents office at
! Strasburg have been arrested for treason.
Another official committed suicide before
he was arrested
THE grain porters at fAvonmouth docks,
Bristol, Eng, who struck against the use
OF elevators in unloading vessels, have
gone back to work, the employers having
promised to use the elevators. only when
| they were insufficieutly supplied with man
ual labor.
REPORTS from various points in the
southern part of Mexico show that the
earthqpake of the 18th was felt very gene
rally IL was felt in Jaiapa, Esperanza
Ilascala, Tchuacana, Pueblo and Oaxaca-
VICAR WARREN. of Trinity Church, Lon
don, has accepted conditionally the call
extended to him by Trinity Church, New
York.
IHE London Times declares that the Fen
ian brotherhood of New York intends to
celebrate the Queens jubilee by dynamite